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🌏 Xi’an: The City That Invented Global Trade | The Past Passport

Welcome to The Past Passport — where we don’t just show you where history happened, we show you how it moved.

In this episode, we journey to Xi’an, the eastern gateway of the Silk Road and a powerhouse of ancient innovation. Once known as Chang’an, Xi’an wasn’t just a political capital — it was a global trade control tower, exporting not only silk and porcelain but influence, identity, and economic systems.

Discover how this city:

Launched the legendary Silk Road 🌍

Turned silk into currency, diplomacy, and power 🧵💰

Helped birth the first government-backed paper money centuries before Europe 📜

Became one of the most cosmopolitan cities of its time 🌐

Xi’an shaped how the ancient world traded, governed, and connected. Its legacy still echoes in how we think about markets, money, and empire today.

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